What can we do about it? US corporations who make their money off of americans have no loyality to keep their jobs in america.
2007-10-19 12:54:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
you guys that are blaming the unions have been lied to and misled, corporations don't want you to like unions..so..you don't...puppets.
2007-10-19 13:29:33 · update #1
I love it when uninformed righties bring up "unions" for a subject that has nothing to do with "unions". The jobs that are exporting to India are white-collar office and technical jobs. These are not union jobs. I work for the second largest bank in the country. The fight to be the biggest fish in the banking world is really a race to to the bottom. The bottom line that is. Over the next few years, 40% of the operations center I work in will lose their jobs, their pensions and their benefits. In Mumbai, India, 200 young workers will take over those tasks, at a payrate nearly 1/20th of what their American counterparts made. We are told by upper managment that these are our new associates - brothers in business, so to speak. Managers tell us not to use that negative words like "outsourcing" and "offshoring" - but to use the happier, world friendly phrase, "global processing". They sent five young Indian workers to our building last week to learn how to do the jobs they are taking. Every day I wonder what goes through some of my coworkers minds as they are made to train those that will be taking their livelyhood. One lady there has worked 20 years within the bank, and is at that age where she is too young to retire but old enough that her age becomes a liability rather than a selling point to future employers. Yet, she sits there, happily showing our 'brothers' how to reconscile accounts and run reports.
Our CEO argues that streamlining and exporting this work will keep us competetive among America's largest financial powerhouses. He says we are a global company and must function as such.
Driving home yesterday, I passed a local community bank that seemed to be doing quite well. I wondered if they had heard about all of this 'streamlining'. I'd hate to see them miss the boat - so to speak.
2007-10-19 14:14:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Obviously nothing. It's the same old blame Americans first crowd who believe it's better to let a Mexican do the work for less than an American can live on, and then when you find the Chinese who will work for less than the Mexican send the work there.
There is no loyalty to Americans in this country. All you hear is "I've got mine, you get yours" I am so sick of hearing people blame Union's. It's not the Union's fault that an American President signs an agreement that makes an American worker compete with a worker in the third wold.
This is the real problem we have, it's called greed.
2007-10-19 13:11:36 · answer #2 · answered by Zardoz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
US corporations are global corporations and in a global market, the American worker is overpaid. A politician can´t say that but I will.
I don't care how talented an American worker is. Somewhere out there, is a person who can do the exact same thing for one-fifth the cost. That is why you are seeing jobs like architecture, insurance processing, medical research, etc. heading overseas to places like India.
What can we do? Not much, except prepare for a much lower standard of living.
2007-10-19 13:15:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably India, Pakistan, China, who knows?
2016-05-23 21:05:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yYou have to do something, the government won't will not never ever help you bcs yr here legally, so what you can do? move, just like other people from other countries moved here for this same reason, I think it's our time to move out of this country. What do you think?
2007-10-19 13:00:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have two groups to blame for this... the unions first and foremost, and the people who think that corporations should be taxed into oblivion, just because they have the audacity to want to make big bucks.
2007-10-19 13:04:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well I'll tell you what Bush does about it, Hands out corperate welfare checks for millions of dollars to help "fuel" jobs but then the company just downsizes and divies up the check amongst the CEOs and buy more politicians.
2007-10-19 13:03:17 · answer #7 · answered by MattMan 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Probably the same thing we are doing about illegals in this country. NOTHING and sit around wondering why the economy is so bad.
2007-10-19 12:57:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Throw up our hands, grab another snickers and answer the next question, sarcastically.
2007-10-19 12:58:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why would illegals be coming here if we are outsourcing at an "alarming" rate?
hmm
Is this more chicken little drivel?
2007-10-19 13:05:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋